I think the same thing happened in the late 90s / early 2000s. I remember reading about how demographic shifts were pushing the country to be more ethnically diverse and more liberal, and that within a few more election cycles it would be impossible for white conservatives to maintain a stranglehold on power. There was no need to destroy the Republican party; the inexorable hand of demography would do it for us.
Then it turned out that they could just engineer the electorate to be smaller, more gerrymandered, and even more willing than before to vote against their own best interests, and they mixed in just enough straight up electoral rat fuckery, and here we are.
I had the same situation in 2012 with the push for gay rights. There I was in a podunk Kansas highschool watching half my graduating class come out. I myself had learned what pansexual meant and finally felt validated. Gay marriage was soon legal and I thought finally we’d made some sort of movement.
I guess I have the right kind of eyes to see the high mark.
I think the same thing happened in the late 90s / early 2000s. I remember reading about how demographic shifts were pushing the country to be more ethnically diverse and more liberal, and that within a few more election cycles it would be impossible for white conservatives to maintain a stranglehold on power. There was no need to destroy the Republican party; the inexorable hand of demography would do it for us.
Then it turned out that they could just engineer the electorate to be smaller, more gerrymandered, and even more willing than before to vote against their own best interests, and they mixed in just enough straight up electoral rat fuckery, and here we are.
I had the same situation in 2012 with the push for gay rights. There I was in a podunk Kansas highschool watching half my graduating class come out. I myself had learned what pansexual meant and finally felt validated. Gay marriage was soon legal and I thought finally we’d made some sort of movement.
I guess I have the right kind of eyes to see the high mark.